Just when we thought we’d made peace with Nina Dobrev‘s exit from The Vampire Diaries, the former CW bintang made a special appearance at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards to remind us what we’ll be missing this fall.

We’re about 11 weeks out from the return of The Vampire Diaries (Oct. 8, The CW), but save for the dilapidated Mystic Falls we saw at the tail end of May’s finale, it’s hard to imagine what Season 7 will actually look like.